Improvement in railway coupon-tickets



C. J. STROMBERG. Railway Couponl Ticket.

No. 204,174.' Patented May 28,1878.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. STROMBERG, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 204,174, dated May 28, 1878 ,application filed March 16, 1878.

To all whom it may concern: Y

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. S'rRoM- BERG, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railroad-Tickets; and I do hereby declare that the following is a t'ull, clear, and exact description thereof, reference beingr had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon. 4

The nature of my invention consists in a coupon railroad-ticket in which the agents stub and each succeeding coupon indicate the place of departure and destination and road or roads over which the passenger will travel, leaving a final stub for the conductor ot' the last road, also indicating the place ot' departure and destination, and each part having a list of the coupon-stations ofthe terminal road, whereby but one set or form of vtickets is required for each road, and whereby each road and the agent retains a complete history of the ticket, all as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, which forms a part of this specitcation, and which is a front or face representation of a railroad-ticket embodying my invention.

My improved railroadticket consists of the agents stub Aand a series of coupons, B B, corresponding in number to the number of roads for which the ticket is intended, said stub and coupons being all in one piece and divided by rows of indentations or perforations, so as to be easily folded and separated.

The stub A and each couponB show, by suitable notices thereon, the various roads over which the passenger buying the ticket has to pass. The point of departureis marked upon all by means ot' the stamp of the agent that sells the ticket.

Each coupon andthe agents stnbhave upon them the names of the coupon-stations on the last road o f the route for which the ticket is issued in any desired order, and this order v so arranged on the diti'erent parts of the ticket that when the ticket is folded the names of the coupon-station on the diii'erent coupons and stub will coincide, and, if a hole be punched lthrough them,.such hole will show close to the same name upon all the coupons and stub.

When the agent sells a ticket he is to fold the same, and then indicate, by punching, thel name of the station for which the ticket is sold. Thus the agents stub and each of the coupons show the point of departure, the destination, and the roads over which the passenger will travel, and each coupon forms a complete history of the whole ticket.

To illustrate the saving which may bek effected by the use of my ticket, supposing there be fourteen stations on the New York Central Railroad to which the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad desires to sell coupon-tickets, the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad is obliged, by the present system, to carry a separate form of tickets for each of the fourteen stations'named; whereas, by the use of my invention, the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad would have to carry but one form or set of tickets for the New York Central Railroad, and in like manner but one form for any other road to the stations of Vwhich it is de- 'sired to sell coupon-tickets, unless there be several routes to the same point or points to Which-such tickets are sold, in which case, by the use ofv my ticket, but one form or kind for each route is necessary, instead ot the multiplicity of forms required by the present system.

Having thus fully described my invention, whatI claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

A coupon railroad-ticket in which the agents stub and each succeeding coupon indicate the place of departure and destination and road or roads over which the passenger will travel, and each part having a list of the coupon-stations of .the terminal road and a final stub for the conductor of the last road, also indicating place of departure and destination, whereby but one set or form CHARLES J. sTnoMBnRe. Witnesses:

G. R. HOFFMAN, N. C. GRIDLEY. 

